Yorkshire on Friday 22 September 2023
Then
Yorkshire in history:
- 1465/09/22 - A perhaps exaggerated gluttonous menu for the enthronement at Cawood Castle of George Neville as Archbishop of York
- 1674/09/22 - A shotgun wedding ends in tragedy for young Mr Robinson of Sowerby
- 1731/09/22 - Death of a mad mule-baiter
- 1829/09/22 - John Broughall, an elderly Jewish pedlar, complains to Sheffield magistrates that he was ejected from the Tontine Inn (Haymarket) for running a shop inside
- 1834/09/22 - Opening of the Leeds and Selby Railway, Leeds’s first
- 1896/09/22 - Clifford Allbutt in The Times on the threat to British manufacturing from the anti-scientific spirit (and private schools and colonialism)
Proverbially:
Dean’t o’ Friday buy your ring,
O’ Friday dean’t put t’ spurrins [banns] in;
Dean’t wed o’ Friday. Think on o’ this,
Nowther blue nor green mun match her driss.
(Moorman 1916)
Now
Heavenly data for Yorkshire:
- Sun: 06:46-19:01, zenith 12:54
- Moon: rise 15:50 set 21:47, first quarter
- Sun: 06:51-19:06, zenith 12:59
- Moon: rise 15:56 set 21:52, first quarter
- Sun: 06:50-19:05, zenith 12:57
- Moon: rise 16:02 set 21:43, first quarter
- Sun: 06:51-19:06, zenith 12:58
- Moon: rise 15:59 set 21:49, first quarter
- Sun: 06:51-19:05, zenith 12:58
- Moon: rise 15:52 set 21:55, first quarter
- Sun: 06:49-19:04, zenith 12:57
- Moon: rise 15:55 set 21:48, first quarter
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